The corpus record

Κάδμος

*kadmos · ὁ

Cadmus, Cadmean, the Cadmeans

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Where it lives

Bacchae 20 · 26.59/10k
Suppliants 10 · 14.21/10k
Seven Against Thebes 5 · 9.93/10k
Phoenissae 8 · 8.29/10k
Heracles 5 · 6.39/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 3 · 3.24/10k
Theogony 2 · 2.9/10k
Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Histories 8 · 0.44/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

1. Κάδμος · Kadmos

Cadmean, the Cadmeans, ancient inhabitants of Thebes, the citadel of Thebes, eight, great

Cadmean, Hes. Th. 940, etc.:—fem. Καδμηίς, ίδος, ἡ, h.Bacch. 57, Hes. Op. 162, Th. 1.12, prob. in Trag.Adesp. 177:—poet. Καδμέϊος, Pi. I. 3(4).71, S. Ant. 1115 (lyr.): Καδμεῖοι, οἱ, the Cadmeans or ancient inhabitants of Thebes, Il. 4.388, Hes. Th. 326, Hdt. 5.57, etc.: Καδμεία, ἡ, the citadel of Thebes, X. HG 6.3.11; also, Pythag. name for eight, Theol.Ar. 54: prov., Κ. νίκη a victory involving oneʼs own ruin (from the story of the Σπαρτοί, or that of Polynices and Eteocles), Hdt. 1.166, cf. Pl

2. κάδμος· · kadmos·

In the wild

Κάδμου · Kadmou Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 120
Κάδμου · Kadmou Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 135–139
Κάδμου · Kadmou Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 1–3
Κάδμου · Kadmou Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 74–75
Κάδμου · Kadmou Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 822–830
Κάδμου · Kadmou Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.1 (DIORISIS sentence 148)

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Where it came from

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